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What Will Happen in Eragon IV? by Richard Raphael Marcus As eager anticipation for the fourth and final Eragon installment grows, huge questions remain about what adventures lie in store for Eragon, his fearless dragon,... More about this book »	AM/PM by Amelia Gray If anything's going to save the characters in Amelia Gray's debut from their troubled romances, their social improprieties, or their hands turning into claws, it's... More about this book »
The Fence My Father Built by Linda Clare All her life Muri Pond dreamed of finding the father who left her when she was three years old. Now it’s too late. Joe Pond has died, willing his remote Central... More about this book »	101 Fascinating Facts About Your World by Larry Esquivel A book of fascinating facts about Earth. Learn about rivers, mountains, forests, and almost everything you need to know about your planet. More about this book »
East Wind, Rain by Caroline Paul When an unidentified plane crashes on the remote Hawaiian island of Niihau, the islanders have no idea that it is a Japanese Zero, and that the pilot, who survives... More about this book »	Dear Anais: My Life in Poems for You by Diana Raab A collection of poetry dedicated to journal-keeper Anais Nin who has been a great inspriation to poet Diana Raab. All the poems were honed from the poet's notebook... More about this book »
Regina's Closet: Finding My Grandmother's Secret... by Diana Raab Regina is Diana’s beloved grandmother - a spirited woman who loves her, cares for her, even teaches her to type her first stories on a Remington typewriter. So when... More about this book »	Grateful Dead Scrapbook: The Long, Strange Trip in Stories,... by Ben Fong-Torres Grateful Dead fans are legendary for their Dead-ication to the band and its enduring legacy of freewheeling musical exploration. "The Grateful Dead Scrapbook... More about this book »
Babies, Bikes, and Broads: The Third in the Cat Rising Series by Cynn Chadwick Tragedy-and her brother's midnight plea for help with his young twins-pulls Cat Hood back home to Galway, North Carolina, in the third book in the popular Cat... More about this book »	Girls With Hammers by Cynn Chadwick BookList Review "Girls with Hammers," the truck proudly proclaims--the sign of Lily's carpentry business, which ran smoothly for years until her... More about this book »

Alternadad by Neal Pollack His novel Never Mind the Pollacks, a hilarious treat, used a fictional “Neal Pollack” to parody the excesses and idiocy of current pop culture. But his self-... More about this book »	Valencia (Live Girls) by Michelle Tea Valencia is the fast-paced account of one girl’s search for love and high times in the drama-filled dyke world of San Francisco’s Mission District. Through a string... More about this book »
Le Divorce by Diane Johnson Diane Johnson updates the transatlantic novel so gorgeously rendered by Henry James, Edith Wharton, William Dean Howells, and Nathaniel Hawthorne; evokes the spirit... More about this book »	Into a Paris Quartier: Reine Margot’s Chapel and Other Haunts of... by Diane Johnson The Paris Left Bank neighborhood of St. Germain is most often connected to the era from the 1940s through the 1960s, when Sartre, de Beauvoir and others gathered in... More about this book »
John James Audubon: The Making of an American by Richard Rhodes Born in 1785 in Saint Domingue (now Haiti), the bastard son of a French naval officer and a chambermaid, Audubon was taken to France by his father and then sent to... More about this book »	Waiting for Daisy by Peggy Orenstein The author of Schoolgirls: Young Women, Self-Esteem, and the Confidence Gap, Orenstein now offers a very personal account of her road to becoming a mother.... More about this book »
Flux: Women on Sex, Work, Love, Kids, and Life in a Half-Changed... by Peggy Orenstein At thirty-four, Peggy Orenstein faced a series of dilemmas shared by many women of her generation: She was unsure whether she wanted children, unsure about the... More about this book »	The Street of a Thousand Blossoms by Gail Tsukiyama Japan, 1939. On the Street of a Thousand Blossoms in Tokyo, two orphaned brothers are growing up with loving grandparents who inspire them to dream of a future... More about this book »
French Women for All Seasons by Mireille Guiliano Mireille Guiliano, author of the immensely popular French Women Don’t Get Fat returns with another book revealing secrets to living the good life. Branching off of... More about this book »	Wild at Heart by Barry Gifford In the visual equivalent of sound bites, novelist and poet Gifford (Ghosts No Horse Can Carry, Port Tropique) cuts to the heart with sharply focused shots of young... More about this book »